Today's devotional started with the verse in Matthew where the Magi inquired as to the whereabouts of the new King. The star had drawn them. They came to see where and to whom the star had led them. They had come. Matthew begins with that, but he doesn't end there.
Luke shows God influencing the entire Roman Empire so that the census comes at the exact time to get a virgin to Bethlehem to fulfill prophecy with her delivery. Matthew shows God influencing the stars in the sky to get foreign magi to Bethlehem so that they can worship him.
This is God’s design. He did it then. He is still doing it now. His aim is that the nations—all the nations (Matthew 24:14)—worship his Son.
This is God’s will for everybody in your office at work, and in your neighborhood and in your home. As John 4:23 says, “Such the Father seeks to worship him.”
At the beginning of Matthew we still have a “come-see” pattern. But at the end the pattern is “go-tell.” The magi came and saw. We are to go and tell.
What is not different is that the purpose of God is the ingathering of the nations to worship his Son. The magnifying of Christ in the white-hot worship of all nations is the reason the world exists.
And my purpose in this simple blog, feeble as it is, is to tell.
Found this song and thought it perfect.
<a href="http://highstreethymns.bandcamp.com/track/as-with-gladness-men-of-old" data-mce-href="http://highstreethymns.bandcamp.com/track/as-with-gladness-men-of-old">As With Gladness, Men Of Old by High Street Hymns</a>
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